6 Dec 2011

Letter to Evening Standard, 19oct2011 - Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who has just been released from detention by Hamas, merits a front-page photo and ten mentions of his name in yesterday’s Standard. Yet not a single Palestinian, among the hundreds released by the Israelis, seems to deserve a mention by name. Your lopsided reporting reminds me how, as Noam Chomsky puts it, the Palestinians are treated in the papers as “unpeople”.

About Me

On Facebook and @robbiespenceuk and roadlesstraveller - blog started 2010 as somewhere to put facts, comments and thoughts (mostly other people’s) about history, politics, philosophy, economics and religion, before I forget them and before I bore my family with them. A commonplace book: a scrapbook of jottings as used for centuries as a memory aid. Themes include language and truth, especially dissident truth, which includes a lot of Noam Chomsky. The name ‘roadlesstraveller’ comes from the book by M Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled, which had a huge influence on the resurgence of New Age spirituality in the 1980s.